being questioned by the southwest airlines ceo. masks don t add much if anything in the air carbon environment. florida governor ron desantis introducing a new bill called stop woke act to ban critical race theory. no taxpayer dollars should be used to teach our kids to hate our country or to hate each other. [cheers] sweet surrender what a night. steve: as you listen to december. it s december 2021. it s december 16th. that means there are nine days until christmas. that means there are seven days until i start shopping. ainsley: that we panic. every time i hear this song i think of the jersey boys and going to see them on broadway. i took my parents when i first moved new york. i scrounged my money together because i wasn t making a lot of the money. rent is expensive here. i gave them the good seats and they sat next to the stage my mom and dad and they were on cloud nine. every time i hear their songs it brings back that memory. steve: go across the river and
pulling no punches in this latest round in the fight against covid-19. he says americans should not make this pandemic political and says americans need to come together to fight this virus. think of it in terms of literally a patriotic responsibility rather than somehow you are denying people their basic rights. another pandemic winter, another covid-19 variant, and another set of guidelines from the white house. but the national institutes of health in maryland president biden outlined new rules and measures to address the pandemic. boosters for all adults, free at home testing. pushing vaccines for children. covid guidelines for schools. and tighter requirements to travel to and within the u.s.thl require travelers arriving from other countries to test negative for covid-19 within 24 hours of their departing flight. previously they had 72 hours. the administration is also extending mask mandates for public travel and domestic flights. the president says these latest st
victory lap this morning on the infrastructure agreement. but is west virginia s senator, joe manchin, the real winner in last night s showdown between the party s moderates and progressives? let s ask our panel, wall street journal columnist and deputy editorial page editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and editorial board member kyle peterson. great to see you all. dan, first, when you re looking at winners and losers here, it sure looks like joe manchin s the winner. here s what he said on monday, and as it turned out, he had a lot of foresight in saying this. roll tape. the political games have to stop. it is time to vote on the bill, upper or down. and then go home and explain to your constituents the decision you made. david: dan, he went on to say he would not vote for the reconciliation bill until there was an infrastructure bill, and he got what he wanted. well, he got what he wanted, for sure. he says that his state, virginia west virginia, badly nee
who get sick we re accelerating our path out of this pandemic. the second way to make sure recovery is fully felt is to pass our bipartisan my bipartisan infrastructure agreement and build back better plan being debated now. i will be heading over there shortly after i do this press conference back to my office to make some calls. i want to say very clearly if your number one issue is the cost of living, the number one priority should be seeing congress pass these bills. 17 nobel prize winners in economics have said spontaneously wrote to me together and said this will lower inflationary pressure on the economy when we pass my bills. new analysis from the wall street firm of moody s analyst particular found it will ease the burden of inflation for middle class families. put another way these bills will provide families with, as my dad used to say, a little more breathing room. that s because the build back better framework lowers your bills for healthcare, childcare, prescr
embarrassing. judge backing the blue and challenge in the vaccine mandate. what came out of cooke county those were not anti-vaccine they were anti-mandate. open up throwing. it s caught, touchdown. hill and the chiefs it steve: it s election day coast to coast. this is tuesday, november 2nd. the polls are already open. they just opened a minute and 20 seconds go here in new york city in virginia and new jersey in addition to statewide races in new jersey and also brian s. brian: voted in virginia does it feel like election day. ainsley: definitely feels like election day. we went to a grocery store and stood outside and talking to parents. steve and brian, they were so passionate. definitely either voting for one candidate and the other there was no in between. it s really about crt here and education. a lot of these parents have never been super involved in politics or school board meetings and we have been covering all of that we have gone from concerned parents